Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-10-24
CRISP AND CASUAL.
THE LATEST IyfkLLIGRNCH FROM THE IN
TERROR COUNTIES.
The Registers Weekly Review Of What TRANSFERRED
in the Rural townships During the
Past Six Days

An eight-year- old daughter Of John Lati-
mer. of Cross Creek district, Brooke county,
near Collier, was severely bitten Monday
evening by Newfoundland dog owned by
Joseph Carter. Her shoulders aud one OF
her legs were very badly lacerated, and it
was thought at first that it would be i'm
possible for her to recover. Recently her
fathers house was destroyed by fire, and
she had gone to Carter's for some wearing
apparel when the dog attacked her. The
girl is now resting comfortable and improv-
ing rapidly under the care of physicians.
james Alexander Daniel, aged IS years,
of Spencer, Roane County, was recently In
Parkersburg. He left his home last Sat
urday and walked all the way to that city,
arriving there Wednesday. He is on his
way to New York city, where, he says,
three lovely young ladies are pining to
marry him. He has decided to marry the
youngest of the three, WHO'S only - years
of age, and lives on Bedford avenue,
Brooklyn. She possesses, he says, hye
million dollars in her own right, and her
father will give her, when married, ten
millions more, upon certain re-
markable conditions, which Dan
iels mentioned and which he
saws he is able TO fill. He also says that
he has arrangements with two other New
York ladies by which each OF them is to
give him ten million dollars, thus making
a grand total of thirty-ive million dollars,
which he imagines is awaiting him in
the metropolis. In order to reach this
fabulous amount of money it will be neces-
sary for him to have twenty dollars to get
to New York on. He offers TO repay 1t
thousand fold to anyone who will lend 1t
TO him. He says that after marrying his
wife and securing his money he will come
direct to Parkersburg, where be
will purchase half interest in
the Ohio River Railroad and will
also build the long contemplated
"Black Diamond" from this city through
to Clifton Forge, Virginia. This old man,
only few weeks ago, when IN Parkers-
burg, went to one OF the banks and told
the paying teller that he had SIG, 600, 600
deposited there and wanted to draw It,.
Daniels has been q vegetarian and teetO-
taller for forty years, and to this he attrib-
utes his remarkable health and vigor.
He is an Englishman by birth and was
married in London in 1882, according to
An old document which he shows to the
curious. He has lived forty-tive years in
this country, five in Massachusetts, and
forty in West Virginia. He seems to en-
10Y his wild imaginations and chuckles In
glee while talking of the wealth and fine
women that are awaiting him.
Regarding the death of Brian Lyndon,
the tramp tinker who was killed at Vol
cano, Wood county, Thursday last, the fol-
lowing details are ut hand: he had been
ON the train out TO the Junction, but re-
fusine to pay his fare, and using vulgar
and profane language, he was put off by the
conductor and LETT by the side of the road,
away from danger. After the train went
on he undertook to tramp over the road,
and had walked safely over the second
high trestle when he was seen by Thomas
Durgan, who asked him to so home with
him. and also told him that the train
would return in the course of an hour
Lyndon's reply was: Go to hi; can
take care Of myself" As the train ap-
preached, upon it's return, slowly and with
brakes drawn, being down grade, and head
light bright, the engineer saw man lying
across the track, hut too late to stop the
engine until the front wheels had passed
over his legs. The engine was promptly
reversed aud the train stopped. Upon the
engineer and conductor going to the man 8
assistance he asked TO be taken away--the
last aud only words spoken by him. After
being put into the car and cared for he
lived but few minutes, being dead by the
time the train reached Volcano.
Last Sunday afternoon Ed. Wright,
Frank Wiley, Roy Woods and several
other young men of GuyaudOtte took pos
session OF two hand cars belonging to the
Ohio River Railroad Company and went
on an excursion up the river. When they
were ten or twelve miles up the river they
began racing, and the forward car was
derailed. The rear car, which was run
ming at speed of twenty miles an hour,
crashed into it, timber striking Frank
Wiley on the back of the head, inhicting
injuries from which it is not probable he
can recover. He was taken to the home
of A. McCurdy, near by, where he now
lies. None of the Others were seriously
injured
DIR. f. l.. Wager, prominent physl-
cieu. living near CharlestOwn, w. Va,
met with serious and probably fatal acct
dent on Saturday morning while at saw
mill on his farm. A labOrer at the mill In
removing q board allowed it TO strike the
saw, which hurled it in the air with great
force. In descending the board struck the
Doctor and knocked him senseless. On
examination it was found that his neck
was 30 badly cut AZ to almost sever the
windpipe. He WAS otherwise badly in
iured. He is in critical condition and
little hope of his recovery is entertained.
Last Saturday Cain Adkins and Paris
Brumfeld got into row about lawsuit,
at the mouth OF Hsrt's Greek, III Lincoln
county, and Brum6eld slapped Adkins
face. Green Mccoy, son'in-law OF Ad-
kins, with a revolver in his hand, assault
ed Brumfield, knocking him down with
weight, and before he could rise sprang
upon him and cut ont one of his eyes and
fractured his skull in several places with
the weight. Brumfeld is well-known about
there, and has a record" of having killed
two or three men. He cannot recover.
Some time since Jonathan Bennett,
young man living in Gilmer county, was
arrested by special agent Of the Pension
Department upon a charge of taking an
unlawful fee for securing pension for a
lady in that county. He was placed under
bond to answer an indictment for the
charge The case was tried last week and
AS the evidence went TO show that the
money received was gift and not fee,
the jury returned a verdict of not guilty.
The first steamboat built by the New
River Navigation Company made a short
trial trip on Wednesday which was highly
About thirty passengers
stockholders and few invited persons,
with Joseph Bartlett, Of the c. & o., as en-
gineer, Boon Burks as captain and DIR.
James A. Boggess as pilOt-completed the
crew. The boat acted splendidly and
made several trips between upper Hinton